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silvergilt Chalice and case of the nonjuring Bishop Ken, which 
he used after being deprived of his Bishopric of Bath and 
. Wells, and at his death bequeathed to S. John’s Church, at 
Frome. This is considered the most valuable possession of the 
Church. Three Processional Crosses were next shown, one 
being of handsomely worked silver, with figure of Christ, and 
studded on the reverse side with Topazes and Crystals. Seven 
lights hang before the High Altar in this: Church, burning night 
and day in elegant pendant lamps, representing the Seven Spirits 
of God’s Throne, and each Altar in the Church is provided with 
a Sanctus bell to be sounded at the Consecration of the 
Elements, 
As the luncheon hour was at hand the Crown Hotel was 
sought by the Members, and after a very excellent repast, two 
brakes received them and started for the Holwell Quarries, 
passing on the way the Park and Mansion of the Earl of Cork 
and Orrery, at Marston, anda large Sycamore, Acer pseudoplatanus, 
overhanging the Park wall, locally named the “ Snuff-box tree,” 
a former Earl of Cork having planted here a seedling maple, 
which he had brought in his snuff-box. On arriving at the 
Holiwell Quarries, the Rev. H. H. Winwood, F.G.S., vice- 
president of the Field Club, drew the attention of the members to 
the peculiar dikes in the Carboniferous limestone strata, which 
were filled with a liassic limestone, containing the characteristic 
shells of that geological age. Other fissures contained infillings of 
Rheetic age, and it was from three tons of reddish marl of this age 
found here by the late Mr. Charles Moore, and carried off to 
Bath, that he picked out some 70,000 teeth of fish, now in Bath 
Museum, and 27 teeth of the oldest mammal that ever walked on 
this earth, Microlestes Moorei, « small Kangaroo rat. The 
infillings of these veins in the Carboniferous limestone were of 
incalculably younger age geologically, and must have been sub- 
aqueously deposited in them when a sea covered the limestone. 
The peculiarity of these veins is that they expand as they descend, 
